JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
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Austerity is not a ‘necessity’ – it’s a deliberate political choice
From the astonishing decline in our living standards to the rise in precarious working, the scale of the Tory ideological assault on ordinary people can no longer be denied, writes STEVE TURNER
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
TO govern is, we are told, to choose. This government chooses austerity. It does so not because it makes economic sense — it patently does not — but because it seeks to further tilt the balance of power and wealth towards those at the very top of our society.
That austerity has failed to build a sustainable economy for us all means that seven years on from Lehman Brothers’ collapse, our economy is still fragile and staggeringly ill-prepared should there be further economic tremors, even though many warn of gathering gloom.
Yet in a fortnight’s time, the Tory Chancellor will unleash the latest tranche of austerity — with some areas having their funding cut by an additional third.
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